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Apr 30, 2021 · The low-cost, easy-to-use air samplers were first developed for a community in Northern California, where the adjacent oil refinery had had a series of toxic air releases. For the first time ever, In search of environmental justice and possible futures for the Flammable neighborhood, Argentina
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Toxic News online magazine is a forum for discussions about toxics in everyday life. We aim to bring together a wide range of stories, cases, and perspectives about toxics, from researchers, activists, writers, and artists.
Translating Toxic Exposure: Taiwan RCA – Toxic News
On October 27, 2017, the Taiwan High Court handed down a landmark verdict on this toxic-tort class action opposing the former workers of Taiwan RCA—most of them women—against their employer and its parent companies.
‘Critical’ Minerals and the Politics of Refusal – Toxic News
Apr 30, 2021 · Dayna Nadine Scott, Associate Professor & York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University. Header image credit: Allan Lissner, PraxisPictures.Source: Neskantaga: We Love Our Land — PraxisPictures A quiet struggle has been playing out in Ontario’s far north as a wave of Indigenous cultural and political resurgence collides with a renewed push to ...
The Elusive Search for Environmental Justice: What We Can Learn …
Aug 7, 2017 · The plaintiffs alleged that ingestion of toxic chemicals used at these industries, which were measured in water samples from the municipal wells, were responsible for severe health effects. Children of seven of the plaintiffs contracted leukemia.
Whose Carbon Footprint Matters? - Toxic News
Aug 7, 2017 · Matthew T. Huber, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University. Are you worried about your carbon footprint? Perhaps you have a long commute to work via car.
The Bahía Blanca Petrochemical Complex: Why I Have Made a
Nov 18, 2019 · Toxic clouds emanating from the industries’ chimneys, strong smells. Cracks in people’s houses caused by the building of port terminals for these enterprises. It became impossible to fish in the contaminated waters.
In search of environmental justice and possible futures for the ...
Nov 17, 2020 · We analyzed how the many senses and meanings around pollution, toxicity, harm to health and environmental impact given to Flammable by several powerful actors performed as a “labor of confusion” linked to the social production of toxic uncertainty, deceit and denial.
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How Small Data and Toxic Autobiographies Unearth the Limitations of the Italian Legislation on Industrial Risk: First Results from Gela, a Sicilian Petrochemical Town Elisa Privitera, University of Catania.
Insurgent countryside: Social justice and territorial stigma in ...
Apr 30, 2021 · Needless to say, wind turbines cannot be compared with hazardous infrastructures that create toxic environments and spill stigma over to their locales and inhabitants.